En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts

Representationso f childbirth in fifteenth-century devotional and historical manuscripts are invariably depicted as postpartum confinement scenes in a domestic interior. These images appear to show a `gendered space' in which women care for each other and men are marginalized. Neglected by medi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: L'Estrange, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Hughes, Tony ; Frojmovic, Eva
Published: University of Leeds 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.513952